Jzef Sandel and Hersh Fenster were Jewish art enthusiasts who published encyclopedias in the 1950s, documenting the lives and works of Eastern European Jewis...
The discovery of a lost Yiddish play from the early 20th century has shed light on the struggles of women regarding marriage, motherhood, and reproductive ri...
YIVO has digitized the Vilna Collections, which include three documents presented in both Yiddish and English translations. The translations aim to resemble ...
The YIVO Institute has completed the Edward Blank Vilna Online Collections project, digitizing significant collections of documents that were impacted by the...
The modern Yiddish theater had an accidental rise in the late 19th century, starting in Odessa. The city had a modern sensibility and a diverse population th...
The article discusses a Yiddish play called Mississippi, which was based on the real-life case of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African Americans falsely accused...